Partners
Syntra AB – Belgium
SYNTRA PROVINCIES ANTWERPEN EN VLAAMS-BRABANT (Syntra AB), PIC
880464830, established in BORSBEEKSEBRUG 32, ANTWERPEN 2600, Belgium, is considered a market leader in vocational training.
Syntra AB has been a VET provider for more than twenty years (°2002) for those who prefer practice over theory and who love their (entrepreneurial) profession. Syntra AB offers day and evening trainings, coachings and professional guidance when starting or upscaling a business.
The organisation offers more than 500 courses in more than 20 sectors to young people and adults, through its 3 teaching places (Antwerp, Mechelen, Leuven) in the Flemisch part of Belgium, mostly Dutch spoken. The campusses work together sharing knowledge, experience and best practices. The interconnections between the three centres and SYNTRA’s network of key professional contacts, businesses, stakeholders, government and sectors are unique and very valuable.
The USP can be found in the trainers: they are experienced professionals and experts in their field, mostly entrepreneurs themselves, who offer ad share their knowledge and experience with the students, above all, by letting the students experience a lot themselves.
Syntra AB closely monitors social trends. Its spearhead clusters include green and circular economy, technology, energy, environment, climate, innovation and digitization. Syntra AB participates in projects to expand expertise and spread their knowledge.
Helsinki Business College – Finland
Business College Helsinki has long experience and a good reputation as an expert and developer of high-quality vocational education. As a forward-looking training provider, we offer our students versatile learning environments, individual career paths, and various skills for developing personal and professional skills. In addition to teaching, we focus on our good connections with working life.
We specialize in business as well as information and communication technology. We are the largest single Finnish college in these fields, and we offer our students great opportunities for specialization. About 2800 students study in our college in Pasila.
Helsinki Business College Ltd is a limited liability company owned by the Helsinki Chamber of Commerce and the Finnish Business College Foundation. The purpose of the company is to maintain secondary vocational education and to provide versatile training and work life services for the business community in the metropolitan area.
Blue Room Innovation – Spain
Blue Room Innovation empowers businesses and organizations to tackle sustainability challenges through the strategic use of cutting-edge technologies.
We are an innovative company with a prepared, versatile, and multifaceted team with experience in the implementation of innovative projects that respond to current social challenges. At the same time, we work with companies across Europe and understand their challenge to create, implement innovation project such Erasmus +.
Our strategic objective is to join the platform economy and connect relevant actors with circular economy processes, promoting sustainable consumption. We view technology as a fundamental enabler to achieve the sustainability goals of the Green Deal.
EUROTraining – Greece
EUROTraining is one of the largest Greek educational organisations of national scope, specialised in the provision of VET courses at tertiary level, as well as various other training opportunities for adults. Its main objective is to bridge the gap between labour market demand and offer, thus its services are highly adaptive to reflect the constantly changing circumstances. At the core of its activities, EUROTraining strives for inclusive education, particularly caring for people in vulnerable positions, through its participation in both national and EU-funded Projects.
Long before COVID-19, the organisation had already incorporated a variety of digital tools in its provided training offers, ensuring that everyone, regardless of their place of residence within the country, is able to attend courses. Today, Eurotraining is considered a leading VET centre in terms of digital transformation of education and training, since its innovative methods are widely recognised at national and European level.
The organisation’s great impact on Greece’s VET sector is to a large extend due to the wide variety of training offers developed and provided (EQF levels 3-5). Among these, some of the most notable are the courses in: informatics and IT science, business management and entrepreneurship, environmental science and energy, tourism and hospitality services, culinary arts, educational science, and others. It also provides tailor made courses for professionals, including training for adults’ trainers, seminars on food hygiene and safety, and training for Data Protection Officers. Every year, more than 2.000 trainees choose EUROTraining for quality and applicable education and training.
Through its activities at national, European and international level, EUROTraining has developed a vast network of collaborators, including training organisations and Universities, NGOs and other social actors, public authorities, research institutes, labour market associations and chambers, SMEs, foundations, and others.
ReadLab Brussels
ReadLab Brussels is a research, development and policy analysis organisation located in the heart of Europe, Brussels. We provide technical assistance to public and private entities in a wide spectrum of fields, aiming at achieving economic and social growth and measurable impact.
Our main mission is to offer high-quality services to institutional and private clients around the globe, effectively supporting their efforts to enhance their reform processes, structural change, internationalisation, and growth.
Areas of activity and expertise, and services provided include:
– Educational Services
– Project Management/Implementation
– Innovation Management Services
– Quantitative and qualitative research and analysis
– Quality Assurance & Evaluation
– Information & Communication Technologies Services
– Public Policy consulting
– Marketing, Campaigning, Communication and Knowledge Dissemination Services
ReadLab Brussels brings together a multidisciplinary team of highly specialised professionals from the fields of engineering, communication technologies, education and social and political sciences with a long experience in consulting, project management and implementation of national, EU-funded and international projects. They have cooperated with a wide range of private, public and non-profit organisations in Europe, Northern Africa, Southeast Asia and the Pacific and the Western Balkans, transferring technical knowledge and designing novel products.
Drawing on the diverse experience and expertise of its staff, the organisation provides, among others, research and analysis, quality assurance and evaluation, technology-enhanced solutions, public policy consultancy, innovation management and marketing and campaigning services.
Center for Social Innovation (CSI) – Cyprus
Center for Social Innovation (CSI) is a Research and Development organization, which focuses on fostering social innovation that can bring about a positive change to local, national, regional, and global entities. These entities include but are not limited to governments, local administrative agencies, non-for-profit agencies, commercial entities, and educational institutions. The CSI team is composed of open-minded, fully equipped researchers, entrepreneurs, project managers, trainers, and Information Technology specialists. CSI encompasses the capability and capacity to identify social needs, design and implement adjusted initiatives, and provide for sustainable growth. The CSI team’s areas of expertise are in the fields of traditional education and e-learning, entrepreneurship, start-ups, innovation, creativity, negotiations, IP advisory services, social responsibility, business advisory solutions, data analytics, information technologies, project management, project evaluation services, product validation, training and computer gaming. CSI draws know-how and skills from its wide global network, which includes academic institutions, IT companies, public services, international organizations, start-ups, and public services.
INCOMA – Spain
INCOMA is a training and research centre based in Seville (Spain) with extensive know-how and with more than 20 years of experience in the development and coordination of international cooperation projects mainly funded within the framework of EU programmes, especially in the field of education, training and research.
Our activity is particularly devoted to the development of social innovation projects, with special focus on training targeting groups at risk or with special difficulties to enter to enter the labour market, namely young people, women and migrants.
CESIE – Italy
CESIE is a non-profit and non-governmental organisation based in Palermo (Italy) and established in 2001. CESIE is committed to promote the cultural, social, educational and economic development at local, national, European and international levels. CESIE contributes to growth and development through the active participation of people, civil society and institutions, always valuing diversity. Inspired by the work and life of Danilo Dolci, we focus our actions on the research of social needs and challenges and the use of innovative learning approaches. In this way, CESIE actively connects research with action through the use of formal and non-formal learning approaches.
The organisational structure is divided into 6 thematic units working in synergy and managing activities in their specific fields:
• Adult education (Lifelong learning opportunities)
• School education (Innovation and support of diversity in school education)
• Migration
• Youth
• Higher Education and Research
• Rights and Justice.
The units are supported by 3 geographical departments (Local, European and International) and 4 transversal offices: Visibility and Communication, Networking, HR, Financial.
Moreover, CESIE benefits from a broad network of partners with 3000+ civil society organisations, youth centres, social actors, schools, universities, research centres, public authorities, enterprises and entrepreneurs in the world. CESIE staff is composed of more than 80 people with a wide range of qualifications, skills and professional profiles, united by a deep sharing of ideals that lead our activities. The team has an international character being composed not only by Italians, but also by people from the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Serbia, Greece, Lithuania, Nepal, Ukraine, etc. CESIE is therefore considered to be a very concrete and positive example of European values.
At the same time, CESIE relies on 150+ external experts that collaborate for specific activities and projects. Equally important is the contribution from dozens of interns and European and international volunteers engaged in internships at our organization per year.
Crnet Ltd – Finland
CRnet Ltd is Finnish professional company of responsible business and information. The CRnet Ltd was established 2007. Our mission is to gather and provide correct and relevant information related to
responsibility. We solved the challenge of gathering correct and relevant information related to responsibility.
As a solution, CRnet Ltd offers a CRnet databank service that contains revised and up-to-date information on responsible business. It consists of two basic elements – news, which are current events around the world, and fact sheets being more of a permanent nature, (for example, how to calculate the carbon footprint). Our CRnet databank includes today nearly 70 000 pieces of responsibility news – half of them in English. In addition to this, we give related presentations, coaching and training for companies, schools, and NGOs.
GrantXpert Consulting – Cyprus
GrantXpert Consulting is a Cypriot-based SME, with a cumulative expertise of more than 25 years in European and National funding programmes. The team has a proven core expertise in providing training and consulting services to local and EU organisations, and a track-record in implementing research work on entrepreneurial, business and other educational topics.
GrantXpert is also a leader at national level in the development of innovative educational programmes. The team’s mission is to deliver solutions, stemming from multidisciplinary strategic partnership on an EU level, tackling new European societal, digital & green challenges. The overall vision, is to change and improve EU citizens’ life by implementing EU funded programmes, and maximising their overall impact. Since 2009 we have helped our partners secure more than 40mln EUR in funding from national and EU programmes.
Currently, our network of EU partners consists of more than 1000+ partners at EU level, enriched on a continuous basis. GrantXpert currently employs a team of 17 multidisciplinary professionals with a diverse research portfolio. Additionally, the team has a specialisation in the preparation of proposals & their successful implementation, with more than 25 years of combined experience.
GrantXpert has developed core research expertise in the following areas:
· Entrepreneurship & Start-ups
· Employability, digital and soft skills
· Business & Innovation
· Education & Training
· Youth Culture
· Social Inclusion
· Digital transformation (pedagogical & innovative training approaches)
· SMEs digital transformation
· Environment & Circular Economy
· Policy reform
JOIST Innovation Park – Greece
Empowering Innovators Everywhere. JOIST Innovation Park strategically establishes a phygital ecosystem that boosts innovation and knowledge transfer through a powerful network across Europe. The Innovation Park ensures that its community is empowered and that its unique ideas grow and thrive.
Located in the center of Greece, Larissa, JOIST offers a broad range of services and spaces to learn, network, collaborate, play, exhibit, and grow. The Innovation Park enhances knowledge distribution and management, boosts entrepreneurial spirit, amplifies and accelerates impact and business results, establishes collaborative networks, facilitates local community development and inspires pupils, students and youth.
JOIST is the port of call for academic institutions, small and medium-sized enterprises, startups, business-minded individuals, scientists, innovation enthusiasts and anyone interested in developing new ideas, products and services.